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Blown-in insulation--done correctly?

My landlord had someone do blown-in insulation in one of my walls to try to mute some plumbing noise in the wall. The wall is 12 feet high, about only 8 inches thick. But, they cut the holes to blow in the insulation only 6 feet up---I would have thought you'd cut the holes at top to fill the wall, can the wall still be full cutting the holes only about 6-7 feet up on a 12ft wall? Thanks

Possibly, but if this wall was built according to codes, it has horizontal fireblocking in it at some level, probably at four to six feet above the floor, so the insulation could not have blown past it.